Research Interests:Parenting and Social Development Within Diverse Families

My primary research interests include understanding parenting and family socialization in diverse contexts. Specifically, my research focuses on how parenting and family socialization vary across ethnic and socioeconomic groups and are influenced by neighborhood processes and other contexts in which families interact. In addition, my research focuses on demographic variations in the relations between family dynamics and children's school performance and other developmental outcomes. Recent and ongoing projects include Project PASS (Promoting Academic Success for Students), a longitudinal study between kindergarten and 4th grade examining family related predictors of children's early school performance; ACTION/ACCIONES, a multiethnic, longitudinal study of parental involvement in education at the transition between elementary and middle school; and collaborations with Study Group on Race, Culture, and Ethnicity?an interdisciplinary group of nationally known scholars brought together to develop theory and methodology for defining and understanding the cultural context within diverse families.

Hill, N. E. & Torres, K. A. (in press).
Negotiating the American Dream: The Paradox of Aspirations and Achievement among Latino Students and Engagement between their Families and Schools. Journal of Social Issues. [abs]

Hill, N. E. & Herman-Stahl, M. A. (2002). Neighborhood safety and social involvement: The impact on depression and parenting among African American and Euro-American mothers.. Journal of Family Psychology, 16(2), 209-219.

Hill, N. E. (2001). Parenting and academic socialization as they relate to school readiness: The role of ethnicity and family income. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(4), 686-697.